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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Joseph Goebbels

The Jew is contrary to our being. He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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Ethics Ideal Moral Nation Ourselves People Pollution Strength Thinking
If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
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Drive Funny God Religious Servant
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
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Age Government History Nation
Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
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Beginning Beyond Creation Destruction Force Happiness Path Perspective Powerful
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
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God Man Modern Necessary Seek
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
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Conquer Oneself Politics Power
The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
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Camera Experience Media People Thankful
I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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Deep Enough Greatness Myself Simplicity Teacher
Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.
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Deep Faith Knowledge Move Place Right
A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.
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Children Choice Confidence Forgiveness Friendship Job Joy Judgement Mom Pride Teacher Wrong
If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
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Attack Defence Ourselves Weapon
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.
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Born Capital Nation Production Rivalry See Socialist
Mozart didn’t need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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Children Light Music Need Play Sing System
Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
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Act Appearance Change Economy Necessary People Politics Revolution Spiritual Structure Transformation Way
If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.
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Beginning Occupation People Togetherness Weapon
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
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Children God Morning Myself Ocean Verse Water Wind Writing
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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Imagination Necessary War Yourself
It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
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Alive Beautiful Celebration Day Himself Reason Thankful
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.
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Deep Demand Ego Equality Sacrifice Service Social
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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Bridge Devotion Future
I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.
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Afraid Bed Escape Fear Feeling Morning Myself Try Wake Up Wrong
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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Desire Direction Failure Goodness Intelligence Leadership Path Propaganda Result Success
The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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Imagination Propaganda Repeat Simplicity
The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
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Appearance Big English Lying Oneself Principle Risk
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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Government Greatness Play Thinking
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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Age Death Flame Intellectual Lie Past
If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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Big Lying Yourself

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